topic Re: Lost contacts list in Android

Lost contacts list

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 20:30:20 GMT

As title. My Samsung SIII has lost all my info in contacts file. Is there any way at all this can be retrieved?

Thanks Stephen

Re: Lost contacts list

MI5 — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 20:36:52 GMT

Open your contacts app and click the menu button (bottom left soft key), choose "contacts to display" and tick all the boxes.

Re: Lost contacts list

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 23:16:02 GMT

When you say tick all the boxes, I presume you mean one at a time. Done that, no luck thus far. Any other ideas. Thanks.

Re: Lost contacts list

MI5 — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 05:25:50 GMT

Do you know where your contacts were stored?
Possible locations are on the phone, SIM card or Google etc.

Re: Lost contacts list

Marjo — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 10:56:37 GMT

Hi, any luck with the contacts list, @Anonymous?

Re: Lost contacts list

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:23:02 GMT

No luck at all.

I've followed the given advice, for contacts: no data on SIM, data on phone is what I've recently entered, where has it gone and how could it have gone?

This is a total nightmare for me, is there any possible way of restoring these lost contacts and info contained?

Cheers

Re: Lost contacts list

gmarkj — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:52:39 GMT

The 3 places that the contacts could have been stored are phone, sim or on an account (such as google).
Normally if you go into the contacts app, there is a menu accessed by the 3 dots in top right corner. From here you choose contacts settings, then contacts to display. (Might not be exactly that, depends on phone and Android version.)
You probably want all to be selected.
Have you changed the google account (gmail account) that is logged in to the phone recently?
If the contacts were saved under that then unless/until you log back in with the same account they won't show.

Re: Lost contacts list

MI5 — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:57:34 GMT

Unless you answer the questions we can't help any further.
We have no idea of knowing how you stored your contacts previously.